Isabella Stewart Gardner conceived her collection and constructed Fenway Court at precisely the moment that landscape architecture was first articulated as an academic discipline, liberal profession, and civic art. In siting her Museum on the recently constructed Back Bay Fens, Gardner contributed to a conception of the city as enabled, informed, and enhanced by landscape.
To this day, the Museum aspires to be a preeminent cultural venue for landscape.

Modeled after a Venetian palazzo, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston houses one of the world’s most remarkable art collections.